Chip Kelly reportedly meets with 49ers about head coaching job

Former Philadelphia Eagles coach Chip Kelly met with the San Francisco 49ers on Thursday, reports Matt Maiocco of CSNBayArea.com.

The Eagles fired Kelly before their final game of the season. Kelly led Philadelphia to a 26–21 record in nearly three full seasons as head coach, and has expressed his desire to stay in coaching.

Kelly reportedly reached out to the 49ers shortly after they fired first-year head coach Jim Tomsula to communicate his interest in the job.

In addition to meeting with Kelly, the 49ers have also reportedly met with BuffaloBills running backs coach Anthony Lynn and have a meeting scheduled with Cleveland Browns offensive coordinator John DeFilippo for Friday, according to ESPN.

There’s been attempts to form leagues to compete with the NFL. It takes money to make something like that viable. The USFL is attempting a reboot and has a lot of recognizable names involved in it, but even that is designed to be a minor league and they are trying to secure adequate financing to make it viable. If a recognizable brand like the USFL has issues with financing, a startup will have a bigger hurdle to overcome no matter who plays in that league.

I don’t think it will impact him at all unless they are done with Tannehill. Tannehill could not handle the pressure of Tebow’s popularity combined with his superior leadership skills, work ethic, etc. Gase would know what Tebow brings to the table. Tim is a QB you have to go all in on for it to work. The team and coach that decides he is their guy will be rewarded many times over. I am hoping ihe gets a shot somewhere. He certainly deserves it and is NFL ready, skill wise.

Mike Tannenbaum, who is the man in Miami now, once said after he was fired in NY, that it was a mistake to sign Tim Tebow to the Jets. I think that is true only because he didn’t understand the vindictive way that Coach Ryan would abuse Tebow or that he would refuse to play him when Sanchez was failing miserably. It was coaching failure, not GM failure.
Tannenbaum and Tebow became the fall guys for that 6-10 season and stupid people were blaming Tebow who touched the ball 41 times in 16 games. If Gase brings Tebow in and uses him, Tannenbaum will also be vindicated for hiring Tebow in NY and people will see it differently and Jets fans will have another reason to mourn. We’ll see if Tannenbaum has the guts and if Gase has any loyalty to Tebow.

I forgot about the Tannenbaum angle. I’d be more hopeful if Tannehill weren’t likely to get about 2 more years of grace period.

People are impressed with Jay Cutler’s 92 QB rating in 2015, in his 10th season. Tebow, meanwhile, had a 90 QB rating in the playoff game against the Patriots, with cracked ribs, when his teammates quit. But that was an embarrassment.

There is no question anymore: the nfl and most of its fans are epic fools.

Actually, his QBR was about 52.7 and his average for the playoffs was 90.
Luck played worse the next year with a QBR of 23.
Andrew Luck Vs the Patriots (in his 6th Playoff Game and 3rd Year in the NFL):
12/33 126 yards 0 TD and 2 INTS QBR 23.0 Score 45-7
Tim Tebow Vs the Patriots (in his 2nd playoff game and 2nd year in the NFL):
9/26 136 yards 0 TD and 0 INTS QBR 52.7 Score 45-10

There was barely a whisper of criticism for Luck. He criticized his own play more than anyone else. The bias against Tebow is all too obvious for those who pay attention.

Luck played that game in 2014. Tebow’s 90 QBR in the playoffs is still one of the best playoff QBRs in the NFL and the 125.6 in the Steelers game is the highest QBR in Broncos playoff history. But, he’s not good enough.

I wonder which team will be next to pretend to give Tebow a look (so he doesn’t actually go to Canada and show that the pundits are all fools, or embarrass the NFL with better ratings with a Canadian team than their Monday night game).